Tag: #drug
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Government Plans Treatment & Rehabilitation Centre for Drug Addicts
The government plans to set up a treatment and rehabilitation centre for drug addicts.
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NCB to probe Deepika Padukone and Sara Ali Khan
Mumbai, 23rd September: India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has probed the Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone over alleged drug case. Bollywood actresses Sara Ali Khan and Shraddha Kapoor have also been summoned for questioning in a drug case. According to Indian media reports, after Deepika Padukone was summoned yesterday in the investigation related to the drug…
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PM directs establishment of food, drug testing labs at provincial capitals
ISLAMABAD, August 26 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday directed the provincial chief secretaries for taking steps to set up food and drug testing laboratories at the provincial capitals to control food adulteration. He also stressed upon formulation of short, medium and long terms policy keeping in view the future food security, requirement of the…
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Saudi customs foil drug smuggling attempt
Riyadh: Saudi customs officials seized a large quantity of drugs from a shipment coming from abroad and arrested five people. According to details, Saudi customs officials foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs and seized a large quantity of drugs, arrested five suspects. According to Saudi customs officials, the smugglers skillfully hid the narcotic pills inside…
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Russia approves new antiviral drug to treat COVID-19 patients
Russia has approved a new antiviral drug named ‘Coronavir’ to treat COVID-19 patients. As Russia’s tally of infections has reached 700,000, a clinical trial involving mild or medium-level cases had shown the drug to be highly effective in inhibiting replication of the new coronavirus. “Coronavir is one of the first drugs in Russia and in…
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A consignment of illegal drugs smuggled to finance ISIS seized
Police in Italy have seized smuggled drugs worth billions of euros. According to foreign media, this copy of the potent drug ‘Captagon’ was allegedly made in Syria in order to finance ISIS. According to officials, ten of millions of tablets made from a billion-euro drug called Captagon have been recovered from containers at the port…
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COVID-19: Japanese drug proves effective as per Chinese authorities
Japanese ‘flu drug’ reportedly effective for COVID-19 patients according to Chinese medical authorities. According to reports, medical authorities in China have stated that a drug used to cure influenza in Japan is showing effective results when administered on COVID-19 patients. Reportedly, the company that develops the drug has seen a sudden upsurge in following the…
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America’s endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
New York, Oct 18 (AFP/APP): In a windowless hangar at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, dozens of law enforcement officers sift through packages, looking for fentanyl — a drug that is killing Americans every day. It’s a laborious job, with more than one million items of mail, the vast majority of it innocuous, arriving…
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French drugmaker, watchdog on trial for diabetes pill deaths
Paris, Sept 21 (AFP/APP):France’s medicines watchdog will join a pharma firm in the dock from Monday on fraud and negligence charges linked to the deaths of multiple people prescribed a diabetes pill for weight loss despite safety concerns. At least 500 people are thought to have died of heart valve problems in France after taking…